[Dahut-pm] [ANNOUNCE] Acme::Tao 0.03

Chris Prather chris at prather.org
Tue Mar 23 11:38:53 CST 2004


On Tuesday 23 March 2004 12:34, Kip Hampton wrote:
> James G Smith wrote:
> > I am proud to announce a new version of Acme::Tao.
> >
> > While on a walk between shrines in Nikko, Japan, I had an epiphany:
> > if the Tao is not constant, then neither should Acme::Tao be
>
> Mmmm, except, what Uncle Lao said was, "The Tao that can be named is not
> the constant Tao." IOW, the Tao *is* constant, but the instant you start
> talking about the Tao, you cease to talk about it and begin to talk
> about your abstract conceptualization of it (which is not the real,
> constant Tao). Its an admonition against clinging to mental models of
> the Tao that can only ultimately distract us from living each moment
> with the childlike openness and curiousity that allows us to float
> downstream on the Tao's true nature (which is the only way to "know" the
> Tao to any real degree).
>
> ubu-tse

::approaches the humble master ubu-tse:: 
Master is not then Acme::Tao be not the Tao, but the Tao that is spoken about? 

-Chris



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